Perish Services are the same Fuller/Willow Creek guys
who hired Paul Calvin Kelm, age 64.
Church and Chicanery is writing a Memorial for the '09 synod convention guys attacking Ad Hoc Committee's report. Joel Nelson is the alleged author.
Also, Paul Kelm is said to have written a pointed letter to the Ad Hoc Committee objecting to their findings.
Paul Calvin Kelm
Will you please go now?
You can go on a horse
You can go on a cow
But Paul Calvin Kelm,
Will you please go now?
Ichabodians, you better plan on attending the Saginaw convention. It will be a knock down, drag out political battle.
Kudu Don Patterson has enlisted Karl Gurgel, the ex-SP, Wendland - the chief at the Sausage Factory, and others for his campaign.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Breaking News - Church and Chicaneries Venting The...":
Wishful thinking on the knock down drag out part. We in WELS subscribe to Love the Lord your God and Love your neighbor as yourself. You seem to forget that part GJ. You see, God commands us to love our neighbor and if you don't do that, you don't love God.
Now put that in your pipe and smoke it. BTW, are you sure your name isn't Richard?
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GJ - I have seen Wisconsin Sect love beaming down on many different people. One layman was told he was no longer on the district evangelism committee after he criticized Church Growth, but he was not informed until he noticed he was no longer getting mailings for his position - after many years on that committee. Corky Koeplin (see the essay linked on the left) was called "brain-damaged" for questioning Church Growth and amalgamation. The former seminary president was called "senile" for disagreeing with amalgamation. Three faithful pastors in Toledo were driven from the ministry, one excommunicated by Bruce Becker for insisting on the efficacy of the Word. The Columbus leaders lied through their teeth, with Love Shack backing, to get Lutheran Parish Resources going, "the first Church Growth agency in WELS." The excited vicar who wrote those words should have added "unless we include WELS headquarters, the seminary, and DMLC."
WELS love is the reason I call 2929 The Love Shack. Fuller Creek love is reserved for fellow heretics, pastors who should be in prison, and gullible laity.
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Anonymouse has left a new comment on your post "Breaking News - Church and Chicaneries Venting The...":
It is amazing for someone who is no longer WELS and who is so doctrinally correct, that the direction to "mark and avoid" has been swapped for "mark and antagonize." The latter attitude in the heart is sinful spite. You talk about others whining and venting. Look in the mirror, dear Ichabod. The WELS is far from pure (no visible church body or congregation is) and will always be so ... but the Gospel is proclaimed in Word and Sacrament. As I recall those are the marks of the Church (big C) and believers are gathered there. I don't think that WELS is a place of either white-washed tombs or a body of folks that serve the devil below (as Brett likes to chide.)
Back to whistling while I work. This blog would be funny if it wasn't (sic) so sad. I'm praying for both Mr. and Mrs. Ichabod's needs this morning. Peace in Christ.
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GJ - I am basking in the warm rays of love from Anonymouse. The problem is: the Church and Chicaneries--like all Enthusiasts--deny the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace. Luther's prayer for false teachers was "May God dash you to the ground." Amen. Let it be so.
